hell yeah i smoke, i smoke too much though about 40 a day but gives a shit it hasnt fucked me up yet!!! i smoke anything with nicotine, actually i just smoke anything!!!! but i dont do it to look :cool: thats just the wrong reason!!!

Linda

11-25-2004, 03:50 PM

How long have you smoked?

eye_pennies

11-25-2004, 03:51 PM

No I don't smoke. I have other things to waste my money on.

Sunny

11-25-2004, 03:55 PM

i don't... smoking is pretty gross.

SpongeBob

11-25-2004, 04:33 PM

i don't, and i generally don't like the smell of it either, except for some odd reason when it lingers on good looking guys, then i find it a slight turn on. hm weird.

weed is a completely different story. i do smoke it occasionally, and i absolutely love the way it smells. and mmm.

DirtyMagical

11-25-2004, 04:35 PM

2DirtyMagical: yeah, i'm from Russia! and what?

I dunno.. I'm from moscow too, I just haven't seen many russian people on this board...=/

Layna

11-25-2004, 04:43 PM

No, i dont. (I feel stupid.)

Obie2trice

11-26-2004, 12:50 AM

yeah I smoke, drum and Lucky`s

JoY

11-26-2004, 07:36 AM

I do.
& ...my mummy knows. occasionally she even lights up one herself with me & so does my dad. they love their little girl, no matter what.

Marlboro red, or Davidoff black. no menthol is even coming close to me. I just know I'll vomit.

the_GoDdEsS

11-26-2004, 10:18 AM

I've done it for four months now just to see what happens and to kill some anxieties. All excuses, I know. But I don't smoke much at all. And I'm in a quitting phase, sort of. And both of my parents know about it. They've bought me cigarettes before. They don't smoke. And they mind me smoking but they also know that I'm smart enough to know what I'm doing. Plus, they pretty much know I'll quit. It's just a matter of time.

Zugg Island Convict

11-26-2004, 12:07 PM

i smoke not that it really matters to anyone here. The thing that usually annoys me about these topics is sooner or later it get bombarded with anti smokers. Not that i have a problem with that but stating the obvious of it being unhealthy isn't gonna make you seem super intelligent to smokers like some of you do, besides at the end of the day each to their own, if you wanna be a preecher join the Jehovah's witness's and leave people to do what they wanna do.

saska de o...

11-26-2004, 12:37 PM

i don't smoke and i won't smoke!! it's terrible.. ugh... :mad:

lousyskater

11-26-2004, 01:08 PM

my mom used to smoke until about 5 years ago when she started coughing up black shit. lung cancer for her is inevitable. she probably already has it. hell, i'm probably gonna get lung cancer from all of the second hand smoke i breathed in from her. my lungs are already fucked up from it.

bd007h

11-26-2004, 01:10 PM

I don't smoke, and I never will. It's bad for you

Linda

11-26-2004, 01:12 PM

my mom used to smoke until about 5 years ago when she started coughing up black shit. lung cancer for her is inevitable. she probably already has it. hell, i'm probably gonna get lung cancer from all of the second hand smoke i breathed in from her. my lungs are already fucked up from it.

Hopefully she stopped in time. Lungs do heal from all that tar, ya know.

lousyskater

11-26-2004, 01:16 PM

her lungs weren't the only things badly damaged though. her blood circulation is very bad from smoking too.

her lungs weren't the only things badly damaged though. her blood circulation is very bad from smoking too.

How long did she smoke?

JoY

11-26-2004, 04:32 PM

my mom used to smoke until about 5 years ago when she started coughing up black shit. lung cancer for her is inevitable. she probably already has it. hell, i'm probably gonna get lung cancer from all of the second hand smoke i breathed in from her. my lungs are already fucked up from it.
tripple nonsense:

black shit; naah. that's certainly not smoking. that's sucking pencills.
she probably already has lungcancer? dear, I think she'd already noticed.
& second hand smoking isn't half as bad as they make you believe it is.

everyone's lungs are black as night - not by smoking, or the smoking of others, but simply by all the chemicals in the air & shit you breathe. a smoker's lungs aren't much 'blacker' than yours, they just contain less effective vollume.

cancer grows quickly; you notice short of breath within a matter of days.

you'd have to grow up sitting permanently next to someone, who smokes every second of the day, to effectively increase the chance of lungcancer. don't be so afraid of cancer, *everyone* gets it eventually (100% chance of females getting breast cancer & 100% chance of males getting prostate cancer), but most people don't grow old enough to actually be living with it. they just make you afraid of it, so you'll make her quit. she's the one damaged far most.

Linda

11-26-2004, 04:57 PM

everyone's lungs are black as night - not by smoking, or the smoking of others, but simply by all the chemicals in the air & shit you breathe. a smoker's lungs aren't much 'blacker' than yours, they just contain less effective vollume.

If you're a coal miner, yeah!

JoY

11-26-2004, 05:03 PM

every body, that I've ripped open in my life - I swear - had black lungs. & they weren't all coal miners, or smokers. it says so in the files.

Linda

11-26-2004, 05:04 PM

*makes note to never meet Joy*

:eek:

nitropenguin!

11-26-2004, 05:09 PM

lol. I suggest Joy is a nurse, correct?

JoY

11-26-2004, 05:11 PM

haha, okay, I do admit that sounded very, VERY creepy.
it's all for my studies, I swear! *angel eyes*

naw really, I actually do feel very bitter every time we having an atanomics practical class, in which we have to cut. especially since there are so many students, who don't take the fact, that dead humans are lying there on the table only to teach us, seriously.

JoY

11-26-2004, 05:13 PM

lol. I suggest Joy is a nurse, correct?
I'm in med school, hopefully some day I'll become a doc.
I've been a nurse for five weeks as a training period for medicine, if that counts for anything, though. ;p

Linda

11-26-2004, 05:14 PM

What kind of doc you want to be?

JoY

11-26-2004, 05:25 PM

I don't know yet.

I used to think I was oh so sure I wanted to become a psychiatrist, but I've seen a lot of the frustration of that profession, just by being a nurse for five weeks. you just can never really reach any kind of mental illness with any kind of medicine. I know I've stopped people from suicide in the past, but that was only, because I was close to them & could stop them with sentimental reasons. when being a psych.. you suddenly lose all of those arguments; it becomes your profession & just a matter of 'business' in a strange kind of way.

my dad is a lungspecialist & I've worked at his department as a nurse. very, very interesting. it's strange to see, that hardly anyone even thinks while breathing, while there are some, who constantly think of the possibility not to breathe. having difficulty with breathing, just imagine that. how beautiful would it be to cure people from that. I'll admit it (& my dad would love this, which would of course annoy the hell out of me), my dad has a wonderful job & if I could ever do what he does for people, I'd grab the chance.

these are my two main interests at the moment, but I've got many years to consider this, since my studies take at least six more years to finish.

Linda

11-26-2004, 05:28 PM

I'm sure you'll do great in whatever you choose.
Best of luck to you!

JoY

11-26-2004, 05:31 PM

thanks. =D (it's really good to hear such words)

Linda

11-26-2004, 05:35 PM

You're welcome! I sincerely mean them.

BREAK

11-26-2004, 06:27 PM

I quit about 5 weeks ago. And I admit that I still miss the smell - that disgusting, foul, repugnant, cancerous, toxin-filled odor that brings to mind the aroma of rotting animal carcasses & burning hair. GodDAMN I love that shit.

smoking is disgusting. Only last night I was reminded of it. I saw a girl, who wasn't looking too bad, until she put a cigarette im her mouth and talked to her friends. I wasn't even lit, but argh! *cringe*

JoY

11-27-2004, 05:17 AM

smoking is disgusting. Only last night I was reminded of it. I saw a girl, who wasn't looking too bad, until she put a cigarette im her mouth and talked to her friends. I wasn't even lit, but argh! *cringe*
you seem to have that every night.

punk_flamingo

11-27-2004, 05:47 AM

for the 3rd time now:

Yes I smoke, since I was 12

Davidoffs, Pete Styuvos or Marlboro Reds.

Davidoffs when im travelling through the middle east beucase theres no tax on them and they only cost me $1.50, Styuvos when i first get paid, Reds when im nearing the end of the week.

wliethof

11-27-2004, 05:52 AM

you seem to have that every night.

Probably because I have something that resembles a social life and there are girls that are mildly interesting everywhere. And lots of them smoke.

Izie

11-27-2004, 06:28 AM

2Izie: everyone say that :)
2DirtyMagical: Напиши мне в аську :)

Everyone may say it, but I mean it. Sort of comes natural when you have an astmathic person in the family, and another who actually died of smoking... You sort of realize you don't want do do ANYTHING that would make your breathing difficult.

Sim: Moskva is, according to my dad, awfully big and cold ;) I wanna go see for myself though!

Everyone may say it, but I mean it. Sort of comes natural when you have an astmathic person in the family, and another who actually died of smoking... You sort of realize you don't want do do ANYTHING that would make your breathing difficult.

Sim: Moskva is, according to my dad, awfully big and cold ;) I wanna go see for myself though!

I wanna see for myself too!!

JoY

11-27-2004, 07:24 AM

Everyone may say it, but I mean it. Sort of comes natural when you have an astmathic person in the family, and another who actually died of smoking... You sort of realize you don't want do do ANYTHING that would make your breathing difficult.
for the same reason I want to quit smoking before the age of 25.
I don't have an asthmatic person in the family (my cousin used to be, though), or anyone who died from lungcancer, or circulationproblems, (I *have* seen several people dying from cancer & choking in asthma-attacks - not a pretty sight; they suffer) but I do have slight lungproblems myself. I've once had pneumonia, caused by mycoplasma (rather rare [[1 of 1000 people get it, statistically, & mostly males]], difficult to diagnose & to treat) & since it was late discovered, a small part, where the infectious tissue was, turned into scar tissue, that has no function whatsoever in the lungs.

in times, when I smoke a lot, due to stress, or any other factors, I sometimes have difficulty breathing, especially when I sleep on my back (for logical reasons), & it scares the shit out of me. it makes me scared one fine morning I won't wake up, because I suffocated in my sleep, which makes me breathe even more heavily. (hyperventilation on top of having difficulties to breathe sure is loads of fun. ;p ESPECIALLY at night) I get pneumonia & bronchitis much more easily now, since smoking, combined with the existing scar tissue, weakens my lungs. I have pneumonia/bronchitis about four times a year, ever since I frequently smoke.

it bothers me, yeah, but it comforts me, that I know very, very well what I'm doing (I've done research on the subject & worked for five weeks at the hospital's lungdepartment) & that I also know that'll motivate me in the end to put the tarsticks down. (it sometimes does; right now I'm putting smoking on hold for health reasons) I know the damage, caused in these early years by this amount of smoking during this short amount of time, isn't chronical. I'll live. right now there's just so much more to my life, than my health. pff, my health hasn't ever counted for shit anyway. it's always been wobbly.

Izie

11-27-2004, 07:29 AM

for the same reason I want to quit smoking before the age of 25.

Would be a long quote otherwise ;)

I used to have bronchitis a lot while I was younger, but only one pneumonia. That was scary enough anyway, I never ever want to be like my sister, hissing and barely breathing for God knows how many years now.

You'd better know what you're doing missy, and you'd better stop too. If I managed to quit candy, you can quit cigars :p

JoY

11-27-2004, 07:47 AM

I know what I'm doing & YESH, I'll stop. eventually.=)

aw, one day I'll be the cute anti-smoker, that I used to be.
"SMOKING IS BAD FOR YOU, HMKAY?!" *giggles* yeah, I used to be like that.
well, it's true anyway.

Well its pleasing to know that out of the votes so far, the majority still have clean, working lungs, and aren't going to have lungs ending up like the ones on the right:

http://www.testify.freeserve.co.uk/smoke/compare.jpg

Tired_Of_You

11-27-2004, 04:03 PM

Wow, I must have beautiful lungs since my parents smoke a lot.

Not Ozymandias

11-27-2004, 04:04 PM

for the 3rd time now:

Yes I smoke, since I was 12

Davidoffs, Pete Styuvos or Marlboro Reds.

Davidoffs when im travelling through the middle east beucase theres no tax on them and they only cost me $1.50, Styuvos when i first get paid, Reds when im nearing the end of the week.
You've already said that twice before. Stop repeating yourself or we're gonna need mods.

JoY

11-27-2004, 04:15 PM

Well its pleasing to know that out of the votes so far, the majority still have clean, working lungs, and aren't going to have lungs ending up like the ones on the right:

http://www.testify.freeserve.co.uk/smoke/compare.jpg
you do know those pictures are absolutely unrealistic, right?
the right lungs have suffered from a lot more, than smoking, so to see. besides there's severe emphysema visible in the picture, in a stage you'd have to light a cigarette every minute during an eternity for, to reach. the person, who USED to own that set of lungs, probably died from the emphysema. but it's still just a matter of speculating, because maybe he/she just got hit by a meteorite.

the left set of lungs is extremely unrealistic, since no lungs, anyone's been actually -using- a lifetime, look that 'untouched'.

these pictures annoy me, because they're silly anti-smoking propaganda, only meant to scare the shit out of people for the wrong reasons. don't stop smoking, or stop yourself from starting, just because your lungs will look all ugly, when you die. they will anyway.

JoY

11-27-2004, 04:17 PM

here is a nice set of healthy lungs for you. YES, they look a lot better than those of a heavy smoker, but you get the idea:

http://www.watauga.k12.nc.us/staff/felkera/Healthy_lungs.JPG

nitropenguin!

11-27-2004, 04:45 PM

I don't feel so good...

Idiot

11-28-2004, 05:36 AM

you do know those pictures are absolutely unrealistic, right?
the right lungs have suffered from a lot more, than smoking, so to see. besides there's severe emphysema visible in the picture, in a stage you'd have to light a cigarette every minute during an eternity for, to reach. the person, who USED to own that set of lungs, probably died from the emphysema. but it's still just a matter of speculating, because maybe he/she just got hit by a meteorite.

the left set of lungs is extremely unrealistic, since no lungs, anyone's been actually -using- a lifetime, look that 'untouched'.

these pictures annoy me, because they're silly anti-smoking propaganda, only meant to scare the shit out of people for the wrong reasons. don't stop smoking, or stop yourself from starting, just because your lungs will look all ugly, when you die. they will anyway.

Yeah, I was aware they weren't very realistic, I was just trying to make a point so found one of the first few pictures that came up on Google Image Search when I searched for "smokers lungs".

Some good points you made, you seem very clever and knowledgeable on this subject. =)

like i said before, wait for a few days...then you'll realise why we need mods.

OMFG I REPEATED MYSELF AGAIN OH NO OH NO

pffft

b-radg12

11-28-2004, 08:21 AM

undefinedwe all no wut u want ur boy friend smoke :p :D

wheelchairman

11-28-2004, 08:22 AM

I'm going to guess that English is your native language.

DUKESTER76

11-28-2004, 08:35 AM

yes i do smoke and know it is a bad habit but i did cut down alot, i was only 19 when i was already smoking 2 packs a day and feeling like shit. i mostly used to do it cause of stress and just to relax. it also helped me loose alot of weight since i used to smoke before it was time to eat, that would take my hunger away. i was a heavy smoker for 4 years and quited for 6 months but now im back at it and really plan on quiting for sure this time
right now i am trying to get my EMT (emergency medical tech) certificate and i am learning alot about the effetcs of smoking and that is really making me quit for sure. also i am in training to be a firefighter and all that tough work sure makes you regret smoking, and also to be a firefighter over here you must be a non smoker.
so i am just gonna say good luck to Joy on your health and hope you do quit and way to go to Izie and hope you never do smoke.
oh yeah and my cancer sticks for now are Marlboro Reds :o

JoY

11-28-2004, 09:22 AM

Yeah, I was aware they weren't very realistic, I was just trying to make a point so found one of the first few pictures that came up on Google Image Search when I searched for "smokers lungs".

Some good points you made, you seem very clever and knowledgeable on this subject. =)
oh hush, it's nothing. *blush* I've studied the effects of smoking on lungs. so it's easy for me to open my big gap.

I, by the way, also found the original picture of the healthy lungs. they were a LOT less red & pink. such red lungs wouldn't be healthy anyway; they look like they've got a serious arterial problem. *giggles*

DUKESTER76 - you seem really unhappy about the fact that you smoke. I know I started at a time, that I didn't really care about my health anymore & thought I wouldn't live for so very long anyway. just fun all the way, untill I'd be gone. I actually do care now, but am hopelessly addicted. I know I'm still young & still have got enough time to quit, before the damage done will be serious, but I want you to know, that if you need to know anything about smoking & its effects, just to motivate you to quit, I will tell you as much as I know. (I think it's wonderful, that you already inform yourself already so much. your body is worth exactly that what you can give it & this is about the best what you do) it's not that I'd do that for anyone, but if someone feels unhappy about their habbits, something should be done & people should try to figure out, why exactly they maintain the habbit, despite all. so if there's anything that I can do by telling you what I know, even though you probably now already know so much, I'll be glad to. I know this sounds silly, typed by smoker's fingers, but whoever could mean it as much, as a smoker could?
& thank you for the supporting words.

DUKESTER76

11-28-2004, 09:48 AM

thanks alot Joy, i am pretty much informed on the effects of smoking already and do plan on quiting very soon. its good to know that i have someone to ask if i have anything else i do not know about. thanxs for your time and to listen me out. right now i only smoke because of stress again and just some things i have running around in my head. :)

JoY

11-28-2004, 01:09 PM

you're welcome.

Unnatural Disaster

11-28-2004, 01:25 PM

I don't smoke. It makes me cough and sneeze when I'm around people who are smoking

Greebo

11-28-2004, 01:49 PM

I don't smoke. I can't stand the smell of them, and the whole idea makes me feel sick. I don't really like smokers, but it's their choice. I won't preach or anything.

yummy yummy punkrockgirl

11-29-2004, 10:39 AM

never smoked. it's a filthy habit

Stoffey

11-29-2004, 10:50 AM

No, I breath in SO much second hand smoke I hate it already!!

yummy yummy punkrockgirl

11-29-2004, 11:37 AM

her lungs weren't the only things badly damaged though. her blood circulation is very bad from smoking too.

My dad got stage one of lung cancer so he finally stopped smoking. He had to stay in the hospital for a long time but he's ok now. He said it had hurt so much that that was enough for him not to want to smoke again.

JoY

11-29-2004, 03:35 PM

My dad got stage one of lung cancer so he finally stopped smoking. He had to stay in the hospital for a long time but he's ok now. He said it had hurt so much that that was enough for him not to want to smoke again.
it bet it hurt.. they have to cut in the lungs, so through the pleuras &.. I won't annoy you with medical shit.

«_ºßäß¥_Ðëvilº_»

01-15-2005, 09:21 AM

nope! tried it and choked

Who wants to smell like an ashtray?

Sergey...You are so nice why waste your life?

xsupergirlxv

01-15-2005, 09:27 AM

Never have,never will. =)

original_psycho

01-15-2005, 09:35 AM

I started to smoke at the end of 6th grade but didn't smoke that much. I used to smoke a lot everyday in 7th grade. But then I got bored and now I smoke only one or two cigarettes in trips or at parties.

Camilamazed

01-15-2005, 11:47 AM

I do not smoke.My dad and a lot of friends do.I hate it when I get home smelling cigarretes because iof themmmmmm :mad: But I don't care I just don't liek when they smoke too close to me

4eh

01-15-2005, 05:27 PM

nope! tried it and choked

Who wants to smell like an ashtray?

Sergey...You are so nice why waste your life?

girl, live my life and you will understand that smoke is not the worst thing i do, believe me

4eh

01-15-2005, 05:29 PM

heh, day after day i understand that it was my fault and i should made a public poll for it